The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-03-31
EVENTS OrTHE WEEK.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
DoinestIc News
Secretary Manning landed at Queenstown
Thursday.
Three bargcs loaded with ceal were sunk
near Evansville, Ind, by a high wind.
The picture sale of the A. I. Stewart es-
tate at New York City amounted to soi3,-
7lO.
New York and Canadian capitalists have
organized with 81 900 to develop mining
lands in the Dominion.
John Kapples, on his way from Boston to
Wisconsin blew out the gas in Chicago
hotel and died from suffocation.
Elizs Weathersby. wife OF Nat c. Good.
win, died at New York City, aged 80. She
was q pleasing burlesque actress
Ada, daughter Of Frank Reschman, a Chi
cago cigarmaker, left a convent in Chicago
and elopcd with E. Lyndon, abookkeeper.
A company has been organized at Spring
field, H., with capital of SIS 0,OOO, to
build railway from Danville to East st
Louis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Worloge of Minerva, Ohio,
were rendered insane because their dangh-
ter was deserted by Charles Brenner, who
was engaged to marry her. The girl is
dying.
The French steamer Scotia, with 1000
Italian immigrants on board went ashore
Is miles east OF of Fire Island Long Island
en- the 18th. The life saving crew rescued
the passengers
During the week ending March l2 there
were received at Washington 6,355 applica-
tions for pensions and 2.l54 cases were dis
posed OF during the week, leaving tota
Of 296, 2S6 cases pending.
The Indian vie OF Charles Hale has be-
gun suit at Wabash, Ind, for divorce, al
leging cruelty, adultery, etc. In 1851 Nancy
Wacaconah, the. plaintiff, advertised for a
white husband and the alliance with Hale
was the result.
The March storms in the East have sub
merged that section with snow from two to
I've fest in depth, blockading railroads in
many states, particularly in Vermont. Con.
nscticut and Pennsylvania, where trains
were oFped IN deep snow and drifts, on
the 23rd.
The business failures during the past
week number for the United States, 2iS and
for Canada Al; total, $50. as against 220
last week and 22l for the corresponding
week OF last year. The casualties this week
are considerably above the average in the
southern States and in Canada.
The grand jury Of Victoria county, New
Brunswi k, has indicted Hon John
| Costigan. Dominion minister of internal
revenue for bribery in the late election.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest,
and his trial will be held ut the next session.
| If guilty he will be disfranchised and lose
all offices and honOrs. The matter causes a
hig sensation and the government is moving
heaven and earth to save him.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, on Monday John
Rapp, an employe of the Gross Ellis Chem
ical works was fatal burned. A carboy
filled with vitricl slipped from his hand and
fell into vat from which the vitriol
SO burned that il fell from his body in
pieces; his face :as burned to the bone and
he was blind as ..e rose to his feet; his en-
tire chest was burned to the ri s; his agony
| was SO great that he begged those who
came to help to kill Kim at once,
The collections OF the internal revenue
| during the first eight months Of the fiscal
| year ending June 50, 1887, were Ss4 2iS, Sis,
being S9i1,J less than the collections dur
| ing the corresponding periol of the last fiscal
year. There Was decrease of 81, 2,;3s $50 in
/ the receipts fro;n spirits; all increase OF
| Sli.9 on III scellaneouS, ard q decrease OF
$50, 81 on penalties. The receips for Febru-
| ary, 1881, were SsO.C63 less than the receipts
| for the same month of 1856.
! 1t is said that the decision OF the Illinois
Supreme Court In the cases of the con-
demned Chicago anarchists will not be
rendered until next September. The
| anarchists are much depressed since the
| arguments were presented in that court,
and gre tly disappointed ut the weakness
Of the effort in their behalf by Leonard
SWEET, aud dismayed ut the strength OF the
presentation on behalf OF the State.
| Neither new trial or reversal OF the
| verdict is now expected.
| At Lcetonia, Ohio, while Pittsburg
Fort Wayne and Chicago passenger train
was halting and the engineer was adjusting
q leaking air brake at one o'clock on the
morning OF the 25th, freight crashed into
the rear car OF the train telescoping the
sleeper and car next to it. Eight passengers
were injured, one OF whom must die. The
engineer was killed outright, being under
the engine at work on the air brake when
the freight struck his train.
| After qu.etude for nearly year St
| Albertus Polish Catholic church and con.
vent at Detroit, Mich, was the scene of an
angry riot on Sunday. Within few days
a report became current that the church
would be reopened by Father Dombrowski
on March q. This report aroused the de-
posed kolasinski faction and trouble was
anticipated. Sunday a squad OF policemen
| were guarding the church and neighbOrine
convent, when they were assailed by a
crowd Of the kolasinski supporters. Officers
Frank Schratfron was ruck in the face
with brick. The assailant was arrested
and the storm broke forth. Ten or more
pistol shots were fired at the police, who
wese also assaulted with a shower Of bricks
clubs aud other handy missiles. In reply
tho police tired over the heads Of the mob
and kept them at bay while their prisoner
was carried away and additional police pro
lection secured Nearly 800 Poles ragged
and stormed about the officers, but no fur
ther violence WAS attempted. Half-a- dozen
policelaeA were badly battered and bruised
but none were fatally injured. A few Poles
were also hurt but their companions imme
diately carried them away, SO that the ex
tent OF their injuries were not learned.
As the investigation progresses into the
cause of the Boston a. Providence II. R.. dis
aster, some startling facts come out. Henry
A. Pomeroy of West Roxbury, a civil engi.
neer and formerly q superintendent of the
New York T. New England road, in the
course of his testimony said: On the
morning OF the accident he found on the
south abutment Of the bridge broken
brake rod bent like a horse shoe, with its
points tOward the abutnlent, and at the
time he thought it might have been the
cause of the accident. On looking over the
wreck in the road he found several badly
welded hangers. Then he formed the the.
Org that the track hanger broke and let the
brake rod down; that the rod caught in the
bridge derailing the cars and throwing
down the bridge. He first saw the bridge
four years ago last May. From what he
saw at the time he Immediately condemned
1t. From its form of construction he had
made up his mind that the bridge would
stand until something went wrong Oh top
of it, and then it would 60 down.
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